Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov

Pyotr Yershov

Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov ( Russian Пётр Павлович Ершов * February 22 ^jul. / 6. March  1815 ^greg. , † 18 ^jul. / The 30th August  1869 ^greg. ) Was a Russian writer and teacher and author of the famous rhyming tale " The hunchbacked horse ”.

Life

Pyotr Yershov was born in the village of Besrukowo near the city of Ishim . He spent his childhood in Beryosov . From 1827 to 1831 he studied at the Tobolsk high school, where, according to various reports, he founded a society for the ethnographic exploration of Siberia . Jerschow studied philosophy at the State University of Saint Petersburg from 1831 to 1836. During this time he wrote his masterpiece “The humpback horse”. A large excerpt from the fairy tale was published in 1834 and instantly made it famous. Alexander Pushkin wrote that Yershov mastered his verses as well as a landowner did his serfs. Pushkin also announced that he wanted to stop writing fairy tales because Yershov could do it much better (despite this, he wrote the “Fairy Tale of the Fisherman and the Little Fish” a year later).

In 1836 Yershov returned to Tobolsk, where he worked as a teacher and from 1858 as director of the Tobolsk grammar school. He died in Tobolsk in 1869.

His biographers state that Yershov was often struck by accidents throughout his life. In 1834, shortly after the triumph of the "Hunchback Horse", his father and brother died within a few days. His mother died in 1838 and his wife in 1845. Jershov remarried in 1847, but his second wife died in 1852. Only six of his fifteen children survived.

Jerschow published many poems, a drama and short stories, but none of them achieved the same success as "The Humpbacked Horse".

bibliography

Soviet postage stamp from 1988 about the Yertschow fairy tale of the humpbacked horse

• The humpback horse A fairy tale in verse (original title: Конёк-Горбунок , or Konek-Gorbunok , translated by Leonhard), Soldi, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-931877-71-X .

as "The Little Humpbacked Horse" , "The hump Horse" , "The Wunderpferdchen" , "bump-Rösslein Koniok Gorbunok" , "Konek-Gorbunok" (Russian "Конёк" Konjok = horse ) translated in German and hung up.

Web links

Commons : Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website about Yershov (Russian)
• Yershov's biography on hrono.ru
• Literature by and about Pjotr ​​Pawlowitsch Jerschow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Russian edition of Buckepferdchen from 1976, illustrated by D. Dmitriev (Д. Дмитриев), 48 book pages.